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White
750ml
Bottle: $14.85 $15.63
Luminous amber colours. The aromas are pungent, almondy and persistent. On the palate it is slightly sweet, refined...
White
750ml
Bottle: $14.90
12 bottles: $14.60
A pungent, dry and bracing fino, full of iodine, apple and walnut flavors. Light-bodied, with a clean, walnut...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $65.94
12 bottles: $64.62
Natural sweet wine made from Moscatel grapes. It has a dark mahogany colour and a dense and wide texture. Laced with...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $37.94
12 bottles: $37.18
Nutty and intense, like peanut brittle reduced to liquid formā€”but with less than half the corn syrup. It delivers...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $48.94
12 bottles: $47.96
There's a richness here offsetting the firm structure, but the iodine and roasted walnut notes shine on the finish....
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White
750ml
Bottle: $37.94
12 bottles: $37.18
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White
750ml
Bottle: $12.99
Mahogany brown color. Toasty, yeasty aromas of raisin, panettone, cocoa powder, and almond meal and fresh baked...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $17.01 $17.91
6 bottles: $13.43
A pale and delicate light dry Sherry that is light in color. Commonly served cold as an aperitif, many consider this...
Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $93.94
12 bottles: $92.06
The 2019 Graacher Domprobst Riesling Beerenauslese is coolish, flinty and floral on the precise and aromatic nose...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $15.93
Intense ruby red color with purple hues. On the nose are aromas of ripe raspberries accompanied by spicy notes and...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $11.94 $12.57
12 bottles: $9.51
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White
750ml
Bottle: $11.31 $12.57
12 bottles: $9.51
With a special selection of high-quality, sweet, and smooth dessert wines, Taylor is great for cooking or simply...
White
750ml
Bottle: $79.83
6 bottles: $78.23
Curiously enough, the 1999 Don PX, which has 17% alcohol and 402 grams of sugar, feels lighter and less concentrated...
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93
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White
750ml
Bottle: $82.93 $90.00
The NV Tradicion Amontillado VORS, certainly has the more complex and subtle nose of all these VORS and is on average...
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White
750ml
Bottle: $71.93
This is a new 2017 bottling of the NV Cream VOS, marked as L 1/17, the first bottling of 2017. This is a VOS with an...
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92
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White
750ml
Bottle: $34.94 $36.00
12 bottles: $34.24
When Bodegas TradiciĆ³n started out, its original portfolio did not include a Fino. This is therefore a very welcome...
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93
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92
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White
750ml
Bottle: $77.88 $80.00
Given the age of the stocks (some more than 45 years old), this wine has amazing fruit presence. While TradiciĆ³n...
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95
White
750ml
Bottle: $107.94
This young bodega keeps to its name by releasing Sherries of classic maturity. Extraordinarily complex aromas,...
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96
White
750ml
Bottle: $84.00
Supremely thick, with a syrupy feel to the buckwheat, toasted brown bread, warm date and molten chocolate notes. Not...
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Rapid Ship
White
750ml
Bottle: $21.00 $24.00
The NV Contrabandista is a blend of the style called medium dry that is usually a very commercial category of cheap...
WA
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Carignan Dessert Wine Fumin Sherry 750ml

Carignan is an ancient blue-skinned grape varietal, thought to be indigenous to the Aragon region of Spain. However, today it is most commonly associated with the fine wines of southern France, and has been grown in many countries around the world which have the warm and dry conditions it requires to thrive. Carignan is recognized as being quite a sensitive vine, highly susceptible to all kinds of rot and mildew, although producing excellent results when given the right conditions and handled correctly. Its high tannin levels and acidity make the Carignan grapes very astringent, and as such, they are often used as a blending grape to give body to other, lesser bodied varietals. Despite this, with careful treatment, Carignan can produce superb single varietal wines packed full of character and unique attributes.

Sherry is made in a unique way using the solera system, which blends fractional shares of young wine from oak barrels with older, more mature wines. Sherry has no vintage date because it is blended from a variety of years. Rare, old sherries can contain wine that dates back 25 to 50 years or more, the date the solera was begun. If a bottle has a date on it, it probably refers to the date the company was founded.

Most sherries begin with the Palomino grape, which enjoys a generally mild climate in and around the triad of towns known as the "Sherry Triangle" and grows in white, limestone and clay soils that look like beach sand. The Pedro Ximenez type of sweet sherry comes from the Pedro Ximenez grape.

Sherry is a "fortified" wine, which means that distilled, neutral spirits are used to fortify the sherry. The added liquor means that the final sherry will be 16 to 20 percent alcohol (higher than table wines) and that it will have a longer shelf life than table wines.